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“we derive two versions of quantum dual attacks that improve upon the previous ones in [Pouly & Shen, EUROCRYPT 2024]”
“# RAGServe: Fast Quality-Aware RAG Systems with Configuration Adaptation _Blog post by Ravi Netravali_ https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10543”
“this term I heard come out of this paper Alpha codium it basically achieves state-of-the-art kind of like coding performance not necessarily through better models or better prompting strategies but th…”
“Our quantum Discrete Gaussian sampler can also be used to speed up the algorithm for solving the Short Integer Solution problem, in any norm, of [Bollauf, Pouly & Shen, ePrint 2026/225].”
“You recently turned 30 and you made a wonderful blog post about the last 10 years of being in the space and uh some of the things that you personally cared about mm uh what were kind of would you mind…”
“so you know one of the other posts that I published a few months ago is you know making ethereum Cipher Punk again and one of the themes I have there is this idea of like building this uh like basical…”
“So if you look, for example, there's a nice study by Otis at Berkeley and a bunch of other people where they did a controlled experiment in Kenya.”
“This motivated us to show how the Hamilton-Ostrogradski formalism can be applied it to the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator. We hope that the approach presented in this work can serve as a basis for discussi…”
“# X-Sample Contrastive Loss: Improving Contrastive Learning with Sample Similarity Graphs”
“because there's papers like this uh paper by Sergey Bravi where they show that they can actually show for what we call short depth circuits there's actually a separation between uh what classical and …”
“I like this paper. I'll give you some examples before I go a little bit more. This is a paper out of the Rican team where they look at uh time dynamics of a so on the top where you see the white lines…”
“This release represents IceCube's most sensitive and comprehensive publicly available all-sky muon track dataset to date and should be preferred over previous releases.”
“you know that there was this National Quantum Initiative act that was passed in the US in uh 2018 I think uh it was written by then Senator kamla Harris”
“Empirically, using only just three such steps improves sample quality over strong diagonal-covariance baselines, including OCM-DDPM, across standard image benchmarks.”
“# #OccupyDNC Communiqué No. 1”
“146 of the 24,576 features in the layer-8 residual-stream SAE release of Bloom (2024) clear a Holm-corrected significance threshold”
“I think it wasn't until 2017 when I first saw the results from GPT-1 that it clicked for me that language is probably the area in which we can do this.”
“The first one I think, you know, OpenAI was getting on board with. The second one in a way had always been part of OpenAI's messaging, but, you know, over many years of the time that I spent there, I …”
“To address this, we introduce RoboPEPP, a method that fuses information about the robot's physical model into the encoder using a masking-based self-supervised embedding-predictive architecture.”
“In this work, we introduce CSA-Graphs, a privacy-preserving structural dataset.”
“Purpose: To explore best-practice approaches for generating synthetic chest X-ray images and augmenting medical imaging datasets to optimize the performance of deep learning models in downstream tasks…”
“At a 16. Z had a great essay, on flock. We can really, really solve crime. And it's just a choice.”
“# How to prompt Seedream 5.0”
“I had another paper called learning interactive real world simulators”
“# Non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices in a superconducting processor”
“Agents as a Service”
“# V-JEPA: The next step toward advanced machine intelligence”
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“_Blog post by Mustafa Suleyman_”
“MW is Short FTAI Aviation Ltd. (FTAI US) _Blog post by Muddy Waters_”
“This paper introduces the City Physiology: a new conceptual framework to facilitate the integration of city layers when designing holistic simulators.”
“there's an interesting paper that investigates this so you can uh you can check it out it's called Embers of autoaggression”
“there's an interesting paper that investigates how llms handle composition uh so it's titled the limits of Transformers of compositionality”
“a very cool example of how you can uh combine LMS with discret program search is this paper after this search IND resoning with the language model”
“Decoupled Contrastive Learning _Blog post by Yann LeCun_”
“We also introduce a pixel-aligned RGB-thermal instruction-tuning dataset and Thermo-VL-Bench, a manually screened RGB-thermal VQA benchmark for low-light and cross-spectrum reasoning.”
“mckinsey put out a study showing investing in clean energy clean economy creates you know twice as many jobs as if you're investing in some of the heavy carbon oil and gas futures”
“# Overcoming leakage in scalable quantum error correction”
“we have a new report out today actually that tries to tackle exactly that question and it takes the data really seriously and it finds that there are really serious connections between economic growth…”
“A number of different architectures and loss functions have been applied to the problem of self-supervised learning (SSL), with the goal of developing embeddings that provide the best possible pre-tra…”
“You will need to use the environment variables defined in .env.example to run Next.js AI Chatbot.”
“A closed-loop meta-control layer (Extension A) reduces forgetting by an additional 81% at ~398M, mapping onto the System A and System M roles of Dupoux et al. (arXiv:2603.15381).”
“we evaluate Claude Code in an agentic proving framework on CLEVER, a Lean 4 benchmark for verifiable code generation”
“GAIA: a benchmark for general AI assistants”
“In this paper, we propose Rate-In, an algorithm that dynamically adjusts dropout rates during inference by quantifying the information loss induced by dropout in each layer's feature maps.”
“Here, we present a comprehensive demonstration of the color code on a superconducting processor, achieving logical error suppression and performing logical operations. ... This work establishes the co…”
“AbstentionBench is used as the evaluation benchmark, as this work aims to contribute to the field of abstention learning. All datasets on the benchmark were tested against this method and various base…”
“The question this paper addresses is: does this mathematical claim hold at the engineering level? To make the answer as general as possible, we deliberately choose the strictest engineering conditions”
“so with that uh I'm want to advertise the journal digital Discovery very briefly okay I really want everybody to submit their best work there impact factor of 6.2 Open Access Data reviewer”
“Training data comes from approximately 100 expert chain-of-thought (CoT) annotations produced by the BC Protocol (Zou & Xu, 2026b).”
“This is the structural reason why ~100 CoT examples are sufficient -- not a purely empirical observation like LIMA (Zhou et al., 2023).”
“We release Llamion, a family of 14B-parameter open-weight language models...We release three checkpoints (Base, Chat, LongChat) that load with trust_remote_code=False in the Hugging Face Transformers …”
“this stock will not be obviously the same without talking about language language models of course they're extremely important we're all using them for one Fe or another so I just want to show you thi…”
“Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media _Blog post by Kara Swisher_ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kara-swisher-burn-book-excerpt-silicon-valley-media.html”
“We present a quantum simulator comprising 69 superconducting qubits which supports both universal quantum gates and high-fidelity analog evolution, with performance beyond the reach of classical simul…”
“Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold”
“# Exploring Prompt Optimization -- Blog post by LangChain https://blog.langchain.dev/exploring-prompt-optimization”
“# Demonstrating dynamic surface codes”
“Noam Brown, who wrote the Diplomacy paper, said this about Sholto: “he's only been in the field for 1.5 years, but people in AI know that he was one of the most important people behind Gemini's succes…”
“For example, Anthropic has the constitutional RL paper where they take another language model and they point it and say, “how helpful or harmless was that response?””
“Through extensive experiments on 32 text-embedding tasks across various architectures (transformers, state-space models) and domains (language, vision), we demonstrate that intermediate layers consist…”
“Here, we present a novel framework for measuring AI usage patterns across the economy. We leverage a recent privacy-preserving system to analyze over four million Claude.ai conversations through the l…”
“For more insights on the survey, check that out at the information.com.”
“actually John Schulman's theme had already published this thing called Web GPT at the time so I was pretty aware of it”
“My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures https://darioamodei.com/post/on-deepseek-and-export-controls”
“when people thought Trump was a clown and he was just a clown that's all he was so I wrote a blog post someone remember it it was called clown genius so I reframed him as somebody who was a showan and…”
“Okay, Scott Aronson has a beautiful sorry beautiful paper that can show random circuits are actually hard to simulate.”
“unless you are not paying attention to anything in Quantum there was a huge research paper that IBM came out with it was published in nature can you talk a little bit about the significance when I rea…”
“We release all our models to the community.”
“Our teams new work using AI for quantum circuit transpilation Is even better. The team has extended their earlier work on RL-based synthesis of Clifford circuits to general Pauli Networks.”
“In this work, we propose Visual-Predictive Instruction Tuning (VPiT) - a simple and effective extension to visual instruction tuning that enables a pretrained LLM to quickly morph into an unified auto…”
“the FBI and CISA just published a Medusa Ransomware joint cybersecurity advisory. We'll post it in the comment section below the YouTube stream here for anybody who wants to review it.”
“So probably like many people here I I read with great interest uh Steve Jay's blog post a couple months ago uh revenge of the junior developer.”
“And so here we’re going to move to the second Amadeus, which came out recently called the adolescence of technology. That is about what you see as the most serious A.I. risks.”
“which is used in arXiv:2511.09371 to establish a 6-functor formalism of complex analytic motivic homotopy theory and produce an analytification map that is compatible with the six operations”
“In this paper, we present a transferable learning approach for PINNs premised on a fast Pseudoinverse PINN framework (Pi-PINN).”
“around 2016 there was a lot of research along these lines 2015 2016 like nuring machines for instance and the like”
“Stefan Volk is a professor at the University of Sydney Business School and author of the HBR article, Tapping Into Your Team's Circadian Rhythms. Here's our conversation.”
“# Roll your way to a billion dollar startup - Advice for founders from Katamari Damacy _Blog post by Garry Tan_”
“they published an algorithm called r10 about how to bootstrap a model like R1 and like right now like a bunch of people a bunch of like solo hackers are like reproducing the R1 results”
“how to get rich remember that one how to get rich that like one theads and super Yeah Bang Yeah Yeah I think that is still the most viral threat ever on Twitter”
“you're probably referring to a paper that Jeff Hinton and I published in nature in 2015... it was basically a bit of a Manifesto if you want or a review paper to tell the wide community of Science and…”
“there is this architecture which really should be called a macro architecture called jepa... it is not an alternative to Transformers you can have Transformers Inside of japas... jepa is an answer to …”
“We investigate the emergence of intuitive physics understanding in general-purpose deep neural network models trained to predict masked regions in natural videos.”
“Let's talk about your newest essay on uh the age of intelligence”
“There's another Super popular paper that you author call koala cognitive architectures for language agents”
“This work demonstrates that Transformers without normalization can achieve the same or better performance using a remarkably simple technique.”
“So when is the Twitter Files, right, which Elon put out with the set of journalists when he took over... you can just read it and you should if you haven't.”
“Facebook produced a lot of documents into that investigation and many of those have now been made public and you can download those reports. And there's like 2,000 pages worth of material.”
“with the first with with the rag paper I believe was released in 2020 since then we've been trying to build some kind of rag system”
“we utilize called something called fusion and decoder we're big fan fusion decoder that actually the paper came from meta our implementation that help us retrieve information”
“there's this paper about actually transformers in 2019 the decoder encoder model T5 looks amazing let's start building”
“The first International AI Safety Report comprehensively synthesizes the current evidence on the capabilities, risks, and safety of advanced AI systems.”
“there's a really good paper uh or there was a really good paper two years ago out of Stanford uh called uh I think generative agents or something like that... That's a really really good one to go and…”
“In this paper, we develop a chip-integrated diamond photonic crystal cavity embedding an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers.”
“Telgarsky-Vattani note a typical improvement of 5% -- 10%.”
“Archipov and I suggested with Bzon sampling in our paper 15 years ago was just take a bunch of you know photons or other Bonic particles, let them evolve”
“If you haven't read the GDP eval paper from open AI, it is an interesting paper.”
“Frameworks, such as DFGL-LZTA, SecFedDNN and COSIER were assessed.”
“this is a famous paper by Ed far look at optimization where you can come up with circuits that will be uh potentially useful for these problems”